Some Shoichi Hashimoto
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Or salary, some people makes 50K a year and some people makes 500K a year. So buying a 2k knife can cost half of the person’s monthly salary or 1/20 of the person’s monthly salary.
To me, all knives are tools. My most expensive one is around 2K USD (kitchen knife wise) at the moment and I would use it as a functional art piece. Even if I ended up purchasing knives in the 5 to 10K range I would still use them as long they’re kitchen knives. They’re not one of those knives...